It Is A Tale Told By A Lunatic

And I wish they would stop telling it

[thisisalovestry]

this made me cry so now i need everyone to see it

[tahthetrickster]

did a bit of driving through the state of georgia today and wound up driving through a small town that i later discovered was called newborn, which is an odd name but doesn’t technically have anything wrong with it, except for the fact that i nearly gave myself whiplash doing a double-take at a building sign advertising NEWBORN TAXIDERMY

[o-craven-canto]

NEWBORN TAXIDERMY

your move, Hemingway

[cooking-with-hailstones]

Listen if the study of ancient humans doesn’t make you at least a little bit emotional idk what to say.

I started crying today at the museum because they had reconstructed the shoes of Otzi the iceman.

Either he or someone he knew who cared about him made these shoes out of grass and bear skin and twine and he was wearing them when he died over five thousand years ago.

And a Czech researcher and his students did reconstructions of these shoes and wore them to the same place where he died to test them out and they were like yep! These shoes are really cozy and comfy and didn’t give us blisters while hiking!

Is that not just the coolest shit ever????

[netherworldpost]

(Quietly, with love) We will remember your bread, we will remember your dog, we will remember your shoes

(Quietly, with anger) We will remember your copper

[heavensenthousepet]

you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old

[maple-salad]

op says we can repost

[richardburbagehateblog]

"All drugs are drugs" = a surprisingly radical position that will upset people right across the political spectrum

This means:

If you draw a hard line between "drug" and "medicine" based on current legality where you live (or any other criteria) you've gone wrong somewhere,

If you think legality and/or prescription status tells you all you need about a substance's capacity to do massive harm to someone's body, mind or well-being you've gone wrong somewhere,

If you think legality and/or prescription status tells you all you need about a substance's capacity to contribute meaningfully to someone's healing, function or happiness you've gone wrong somewhere,

If you think certain substances should be excluded from informed consent (either withheld or forcibly administered) you've gone wrong somewhere.

[3000s]

after 2 years working outdoors all day i finally got stung by an onion for the first time yesterday and i wasnt even doing anything there wasnt even a nest nearby

[3000s]

a wasp. i was looking at a onion just now sorry

[missandryifyourenasty]

I often think about that post that was a fake dating profile for a cat that was all about chickens, like wanting someone with posable thumbs for opening chickens.

[notogdenjesse]

This is one my favourite things the internet has ever made.

[missandryifyourenasty]

!!!!!!

[bioluminescently-unfolding]

This remains one of the great art objects of modern times and nobody will convince me otherwise.

[an-na-ko]

Saw it was make a terrible comic day today (June 24 2025) so meet my cats

[bobdylanyaoi]

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

[bareniabirkin]

😟😳😳😳

[squadron-of-damned]

#idk what this means or if i do this but ig i'll just hold my phone with my pinky stuck out from now on?? 

Good question, also no that won’t help.

shitty MS Paint 3 minutes doodle, nto entirely accurate: When you have your pinky hooked on the “bottom” edge of the phone for the extra security so it doesn’t slide out of your hand that easily, you’re wreaking damage on your hand, since the pinky is extremely askew from it’s resting position. You might have noticed that when you hold your phone like that for long time it begins to hurt, like when you are gripping a pen too tightly for example.

Green lines - the fingers are going their natural way. Red line - the pinky is way off, that’s bad.

[theclockworkjudas]

Me: Oh, good thing I never-

Me, looking down at hand: By talos this can't be happening

[h4nds4ndwich]

oh thats why my hadns have started to always be in pain ok

[dreamerwriternstargazer]

*sighs* it took 15 minutes to find these credible sources and kick your condescending ass into the dirt

Ulnar tunnel syndrome occurs when of the main nerves to the hand is compressed at the wrist. The condition causes numbness and tingling in t

Further info:

Background/objective: The detrimental effects of smartphone addiction impair hand functions and pinch strength. One prominent issue is the o

[chilewithcarnage]

Sinners was extremely fun and had much more depth than your average blockbuster but when you start saying shit like it has to win every Oscar and be everyone's movie of the year or you hate Black art people are gonna start pointing out that the characters aren't as well developed as in One Battle (or Sentimental Value or The Secret Agent) the setting doesn't feel as lived in as it could be and the exposition is a lil clumsy. none of that is even a bad thing for the kind of film it is, I don't think Ryan Coogler shot for heights he didn't reach, I think he made the exact film he meant to and he made it really well. It's a masterpiece in the same way that Jurassic Park and Jaws are masterpieces and I certainly would not have been mad if it won Best Picture but I can understand why it didn't.

I don't have a succinct retort to this if you think thematically Sinners is on the same level as Jurassic fucking Park you are stupid and/or racist

[wreathofleon]

i despise this little rhetorical trick white people do when they purposely misrepresent our genuine critique of the system (racial biases of the oscars, and the history of black filmmakers getting snubbed) as a highly emotional kneejerk response that's attempting to suffocate dissent ("it has to win every oscar, and if it doesn't, everyone at the oscars is racist. and if you disagree that it should win every oscar, you are racist"). this awfully bad faith interpretation of the current discourse is not only absurd and indicative of white people's myopic colonial worldview of everything being a matter of conquer and dominion over others, but places black people in the position where they have to exonerate themselves of the fictional argument that YOU made up in YOUR OWN head at every turn to advance the shit they're ACTUALLY trying to say. which is:

have you ever considered that if it sounds unbelievable, then it shouldn't be believed? because nobody—and i mean NOBODY—is arguing that sinners is (1) a flawless movie, (2) that you're racist for not liking it, or that you have an obligation to like it, or (3) that it deserved "every oscar" (which it does, but we all know its patently unrealistic and is, again, unbelievable.)

we are still reeling from the stars of this same movie getting called the n word by a white person at another events show, and having the entire internet browbeat us about how we hate disabled people and know nothing about disability because we didn't exhibit the most nuanced, regulated response to racial trauma; all as a massive chess play by BAFTA to deliberately stoke ratings from us.

we're still having racist circlejerks on this website about how the black music tradition is a valid tradition and shouldn't be pigeonholed into the "sex, drugs, money, and gangs" genre by moral nitpickers with double standards or white people with an almost fetishistic, VAMPIRIC attachment to our art and its purposes.

for fucksakes, one of the first articles ever written about this movie on its OPENING WEEKS was variety spitballing about how it "wasn't gonna be a box office hit" because it was an "original genre film" and not the 17th "the conjuring" installation huffing its own ectoplasmic fume and rot. several movies released at around the same time that were original genre films. . . and NONE of them had articles written about how they weren't "pulling their weight."

everything regarding this movie's release and propagation on a systemic level was DESIGNED for it to fail. at every step of the way were you colonial vultures egging this movie on to suffer despite how masterful and attentive its execution was. you have people on this website fangirling over remmicKKK and giving black people their dumb nerdy fandom spiel about how personal gratification is above all even if it's tone-deaf and racist and just artistically god awful.

and all we have to say for this storm of cracker nonsense swarming around maybe what is one of the best films to be made in contemporary is "i can understand why it didn't win?" Can You? Can You Really?

[schmergo]

I was talking to my husband the other day and, as a random example of a boring topic that nobody at a party would want to hear about, I happened to come up with, “The history of wheelbarrows.”

But then my husband and I got curious and decided to look up the history of wheelbarrows, and we both thought it was surprisingly interesting.

The very next day, we were visiting a thrift store with family and my sister spotted a toy wheelbarrow for her son, and my husband said, “Did you know that Jesus was older than wheelbarrows? They weren’t invented until around 100 CE.”

This is why curious people are my favorite type of people. No topic is really that boring when you look into it. And everything is more interesting when you talk about it with someone you love.

[timetravelingravenclaw17]

Not me immediately going to look up the history of wheel barrels before I even finish reading the post

[schmergo]

The oldest existing wheelbarrow ever found is from 1537 and is on display in a museum in Ingolstadt- in surprisingly good condition! It wasn’t unearthed until 2013/14!

[fagcrisis]

im about to maul someone.

[fagcrisis]

"stories dont need conflict" girl anything can be a conflict if ur story is about chickens going on adventures the conflict is the fucking fence they gotta hop over. if ur story is about making a lovely cup of tea the conflict can be turning on the stove. like u literally cannot write a story without conflict

[fagcrisis]

ALSO i hate mfers who say this shit and then go "thats why i like ghibli movies cuz theyve got no conflict" OH YOU MEAN HOWLS MOVING CASTLE, NAUSICAA, PRINCESS MONONOKEY CASTLE IN THE SKY ETC THAT ARE ALL ABOUT THE HORRORS OF WAR

[fagcrisis]

even the ones that arent about the horrors of war. in kiki's delivery service kiki growing up and learning to trust people and accept help is the central conflict of the story!! my neighbour totoro's central conflict is how the girls are dealing with their mom being sick and the responsibility they feel this puts on them!! i could go on!!

[eeby-deeby-dark-and-creepy]

[octobaba]

tags by @toastedpopsicle

[shadow-von-vamp]

reblogging a post that says “do it scared” vs actually doing it scared

[tractorgoth]

[modern-politics111]

[scotty-wolf-lover1968]

important and encouraging

[pcamtschatica]

Found a great (free) documentary on the Freedom House Ambulance Service here- https://www.wqed.org/freedomhouse/ (has captions too)!

[hoodiedeer]

I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve heard about this. like for years I’ve been thinking “imagine if the police were in charge of ambulances and firefighting, all the horrible problems that would cause, wouldn’t it be better if they were a separate thing, etc” as a way to better understand/explain the fundamental problems with the existence of police. that framing was part of what made me start to understand why my friends were saying “ACAB” and “abolish the police”. I had no idea it was literally once historically like that and not just a hypothetical tbh

[ardentdelirium]

Interview with one of the original members of Freedom House Ambulance

[scriptmedic]

This is cool as shit, and a part of my own career’s history that I didn’t even know about.

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

I don't need the chatgpt random algorithm to write emails for me because I already have a custom and 100% flawless algorithm called "writing the exact same three emails with the names changed"

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

#1: "hi [landlord], hope you're doing well! [apartment thing] is [broken/a problem]. we need it [fixed/replaced/handled] by [date]. let us know when you'll send someone over so we can be here to let them in. thanks so much, [op]"

#2: "hi [professor], hope you're doing well! unfortunately, I'm [sick/stuck at work/dead] and won't be able to submit [assignment] by [due date]. could I please have an extension? if not, is there anything else I could do to make up this credit? thanks so much, [op]"

#3: "hi [customer service person], hope you're doing well! unfortunately, [product] [didn't arrive/is broken/wrong color/gave me a rash/poisoned my crops] and I'd like to receive a [refund/replacement]. here is the documentation of the order and photos of [broken thing/wrong thing/my rash/dead crops]. thanks so much, [op]"

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

"but op I work in an office I have to write way more emails than you" well that's your fault for working in an office i got nothing to do with that

[perpetualsarcasmmachine]

Writing an email is so easy and I will tell you how it's done. This is the advice is for everyone with an email job, but you can apply it to normal human interaction.

The FIRST SENTENCE is the thing you want the recipient to do. Do not make them guess.

I want to let you know about ... (This email is to inform someone of something not to ask them to do anything)

Could you please do ... (This is a request. You want them to do something).

I'm looking into x and wondering if you can help me (this is also a request but for information instead of an action).

People do not want to read an email and even if they do read it, most people are skimming and not interested. Tell them what you want first, then provide context or other information (when you need a thing is often key). If the email is informational, you can even add "you don't need to do anything, this is just to keep you informed!" People will appreciate not having to figure out what you want from them.

If you can't articulate what you want the recipient to do with the message, you are not ready to email them. I read too many emails where I have no idea what the person wants from me.

Put the most important thing first and everyone will be impressed! AI cannot do this for you because it can't tell what's important! Only you know that, which is why you must write your own emails.

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

to everyone who wants help with emails: go through the notes of this post. there are ideas I've never thought of and plenty of scripts for all kinds of situations/jobs